Facts

• Segment: Industrial
• Country: China
• Founded: 2023
• Website: https://www.corenetic.ai

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Supply chain relationships
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

Corenetic AI develops humanoid robots and embodied-intelligence systems. Its Monte 02 robot is designed as a full-body humanoid for manipulation, movement and interaction tasks in real-world environments.

Market context

Corenetic matters as an early embodied-AI company applying robotic manipulation to precision environments where standard industrial automation often falls short. Monte 02 embodied AI for laboratory automation dexterous manipulation systems AI-driven autonomous decision-making general-purpose robotic capabilities. dual-arm manipulation with dexterous hands laboratory workflow automation (sampling, transfer, testing) learning from demonstration real-time perception and control AI foundation models for industrial autonomy adaptive task execution.

• Capability: dual-arm manipulation with dexterous hands laboratory workflow automation (sampling, transfer, testing) learning from demonstration real-time perception and control AI foundation models for industrial autono…
• Strategic position: embodied AI for laboratory automation dexterous manipulation systems AI-driven autonomous decision-making general-purpose robotic capabilities. Capabilities include dual-arm manipulation with dextero…

Products

• Monte 02

Facts

• Website: https://www.corenetic.ai
• HQ: Beijing, China
• Founded: 2023
• Segment: Industrial
• Known funding rounds: 2

Funding

• 2025-02-27 - Series A - Corenetic AI completes Series A financing led by Alibaba - source: iyiou.com
• 2024-09-07 - Seed - $4M - Corenetic AI receives seed funding from Alibaba Group and Capital Nuts - source: uk.marketscreener.com

Investors

• Alibaba - Lead - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2025-02-27
• Alibaba Group - Lead - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2024-09-07
• Capital Nuts - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-09-07

Embodied AI lab automation company

Corenetic AI develops embodied intelligent robotics for life-science automation, using humanoid-style systems to perform laboratory tasks.

• Target environment: Pharmaceutical labs, biomedical research sites, life-science automation environments and humanoid robotics development labs.
• Deployment model: Embodied AI robot development for laboratory automation and life-science partnerships.
• Customer context: Pharmaceutical companies, life-science labs, research institutions and automation partners.
• Workflow context: Lab task execution, experiment handling, dexterous manipulation, robotic procedure repetition and embodied AI validation.
• Commercial maturity: Early-stage life-science robotics company with investor backing and visible lab-automation positioning. Scaling depends on reliable procedure execution, instrument integration, validation data, and…
• Market position: Embodied AI robotics company focused on life-science laboratory automation rather than general consumer humanoids.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on lab reliability, procedure accuracy, safety, integration with instruments, validation data and customer trust.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes lab automation robots, embodied AI, pharmaceutical robotics and humanoid manipulation for scientific workflows.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2025-08-09 - Partnership - Corenetic AI and MGI enter strategic collaboration for life-science and robotics applications - Corenetic announced a strategic collaboration with MGI, part of the BGI Group, spanning life-sci…
• 2025-08-08 - Product Launch - Corenetic AI debuts Monte02 at the 2025 World Robot Conference - Corenetic used the 2025 World Robot Conference to unveil Monte02, a wheeled embodied-intelligence robot aimed at multi-indus…
• 2025-02-27 - Funding - Corenetic AI completes Series A financing led by Alibaba - Corenetic announced a Series A described in press coverage as worth several hundred million yuan.
• 2024-09-07 - Funding - Corenetic AI receives seed funding from Alibaba Group and Capital Nuts - Beijing CoreNetic.AI disclosed a first tranche of CNY 30 million.

Team

• Wenzhao Lian - Founder - Lian leads Corenetic's embodied-intelligence humanoid robotics work.

Supply chain relationships

• technology_partner - Corenetic AI has a public integration relationship with MGI.

Context tags

• Industrial embodied robot OEM - Stack Layer - Corenetic builds industrial embodied-AI robot systems.
• Industrial embodied AI builder - Peer Group - Corenetic builds embodied-AI robots for industrial, lab and logistics environments.
• Lab automation humanoid builder - Peer Group - Corenetic develops humanoid/embodied AI robots for laboratory automation.
• Lab robot task execution - Workflow - Corenetic robots execute laboratory and life-sciences tasks.
• Industrial task generalization - Workflow - Corenetic robots generalize across industrial tasks.
• Demonstration-taught robot tasks - Workflow - Corenetic uses task learning from demonstrations.
• Physical AI manipulation builder - Peer Group - Corenetic uses Physical AI manipulation for industrial tasks.
• Robot world model platform - Stack Layer - Corenetic provides robot world model integration.
• Factory automation cells - Customer Environment - Corenetic robots are deployed in factory automation cells.